Cuba: An Introduction
The U.S. agenda in Cuba remains counter-revolution

The U.S. agenda in Cuba remains counter-revolution

Speech by Gloria La Riva at PSL forum in San Francisco, Jan. 2, 2015 Dec. 17, 2014, was an historic day for Cuba. On that morning, the three remaining Cuban Five members in U.S. prison flew home to freedom. At the same time, Alan Gross, an American who was arrested in...

Cuba: ‘for families free of homophobia’

Cuba: ‘for families free of homophobia’

An interview with Mariela Castro The following interview by Dalia González Delgado originally appeared in Granma Internacional. Director of the National Sex Education Center (CENESEX) and editor of the Sexology and Society magazine, a graduate in Education,...

A Marxist analysis of Cuba’s new economic reforms

A Marxist analysis of Cuba’s new economic reforms

It is more important than ever for communists, in general, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, specifically, to state our position on the Cuban Revolution. The capitalist media, the government, legions of academics and think tank policy “experts” are busy at...

Workers’ democracy in Cuba

Workers’ democracy in Cuba

In the United States, politicians of all stripes, along with the big-business media, routinely portray Cuba as an oppressive dictatorship. Cuban leader Fidel Castro is said to decide everything in society, supported by a police state where free political expression...

The revolutionary role of women in Cuba

“Revolution within the Revolution.” This is what Cuba calls the struggle for women’s equality. This phrase is used because even though the social system and economic conditions in Cuba were fundamentally transformed by the revolution, social relations could not be...

Defending Cuba’s socialist revolution

Defending Cuba’s socialist revolution

In what has become an annual slander, the May 5 issue of Forbes magazine named Cuban president Fidel Castro as one of the “world’s richest people” among “royals and rulers.” The magazine—known for years by its moniker as “the capitalist tool”—claimed that Castro was...